REDO transport issue from FarSYNC database (Doc ID 2802033.1)

Last updated on APRIL 17, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

Primary ship REDO to standby in SYNC mode and farSYNC configured to ship REDO to standby.

Configuration details :

Primary --(SYNC)- > FarSYNC --(ASYNC)- > Standby

FarSync Alert log,

2021-08-23T02:26:48.515272-07:00
ORACLE Instance orafarsync, archival error, archiver continuing <<< archival error
2021-08-23T02:26:48.515487-07:00
ORA-16055: FAL request rejected
2021-08-23T02:26:48.515822-07:00
Errors in file <Trace Dump>/<farsync_SID>_arc1_31506.trc:
ORA-16055: FAL request rejected
2021-08-23T02:27:48.929957-07:00
ARC3 (PID:31510): FAL: Archive not allowed because media recovery disabled
ARC3 (PID:31510): FAL archive failed with error 3 (see trace for details)
ARC3 (PID:31510): FAL archive failed, archiver continuing

No errors reported in FARSYNC but the logs are not shippied to standby.

Standby

PROCESS STATUS THREAD# SEQUENCE# DELAY_MINS ACTIVE_AGENTS CLIENT_P

--------- ------------ ---------- ---------- ---------- ------------- --------

ARCH CONNECTED 0 0 0 0 ARCH

DGRD ALLOCATED 0 0 0 0 N/A

DGRD ALLOCATED 0 0 0 0 N/A

RFS IDLE 1 0 0 0 Archival

MRP0 WAIT_FOR_GAP 1 4511 0 3 N/A

Cause

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